Timesquare: Humanism
Timesquare
THE NECESSITY OF HUMANISM
The intention of this site is to create a network of humanistic and non-political opinions, intended to make mankind of the whole globe aware of the humanistic danger we are all living in in these years. We see politics as a challenge for humanistic thinking and humanistic behaviour. If real humanism does not take over everywhere in the world, mankind will run into extreme danger, ending up with total extinction. Politics as a tool for power and religion is the black side of mankind.
Humanistic thinking cares for all people, no matter what religion and ethnicity they belong to. We all have something in common: freedom, equality, and reason. Through reason we can reach freedom and equality, but reason can lead to misuse of power, and there is only one concept, which can prevent this: The Common Will, The Common Knowledge. Whatever mankind has reached, it dwells in every single person and therefore, The Common Will and The Common Knowledge provides us with responsibility, conscience, and pity for one another, which takes us into a profound consciousness about the conscience, which we have in ourselves. Without being conscious about yourself, you cannot be conscious about other people. Thus, the only way is to bring up and educate children as free human beings. Therefore, schools must be basically changed in their ways of providing humanism. If we do not do it, we risk a breakdown of mankind.
This site is a debate site for the whole world. If you have opinions on this issue, you can take part in the humanistic debate by mailing an essay or opinion to
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This is done through mail to prevent disturbing texts which can spoil the intention of this site.
We do look forward to receiving texts from all over the world.
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English, German, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.
Florian Clianthos
Timesquare is a square, in which people of all nationalities, religions, and ethnicities meet in a friendly and humanistic way.
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This is Linda Clay’s comment:
There will always be disparity in mankind. Disparity has its origin in the difference in upbringing and education. Nobody is alike, and nobody should be. Humanistic values appear in the disparity. Thus, every single human being is unique because of disparity, and no humanistic values can appear without the disparity.
Therefore, no religious/political rules or laws can change humanism and the humanistic values, which are the basis of life in any society.
Thus, religious belief is a private matter, which can never interfere with disparity and humanism. This counts for political opinions as well. They are private matters and are not supposed to influence humanistic values.
Humanism is the basis of Life and can never be political or religious. Humanism has philosophical roots, and philosophy is part of The Common Will and The Common Knowledge. Thus, experience and philosophy are the spiritual currents in every human being. We are all mirrors of each other.
Linda Clay
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Dette er Peter Hansens tekst.
Den fælles vilje er jo netop samvittigheden. Samvittighed betyder samviden, altså den fælles vilje, vi alle er ansvarlige overfor. Dette er meget vigtigt, fordi samvittighed og moral oftest opfattes som noget religiøst, men humanismen og filosofien kommer før religionen, der har sit udspring i netop det filosofiske element. Uden filosofien, ingen religion.
Det er fantastisk vigtigt, at vi forstår, hvoraf religion udspringer. Den er netop ikke det oprindeligste, men næste trin i den åndelige udvikling. Humanismen er den samme, hvor på kloden man end lever, og i hvilken kulturkreds man er opvokset. Hvis vi har forstået dette, bliver fx politisk partidannelse noget nonsens, som kun går magtens vej, hvor netop humanisme skal gå ind og stoppe magten, når den misbruges. Samvittigheden er således den humanistiske ledetråd, vi alle har: den fælles vilje og den fælles viden.
Peter Hansen.
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Here is a piece of a short story for children, which I found on the net.
Do read it!!!!!!!
I remember what my little brother said the other day. He said, ”Babies cannot do anything evil, because they are totally free. But the first time they are scolded by their parents or somebody else, they can – and a little bit of the freedom is taken away.”
“How old is he?”
“Seven. But he’s right, isn’t he?”
“I guess so. So we are not totally free?”
“No.”
“Can’t you get your freedom back?”
“Well, I don’t think so. Just to make a society work, you have to take some freedom away from the citizens. It’s strange.”
“And dictatorships take all the freedom away.”
“So does democracy. It shouldn’t. I’m dreaming of another world order. But I can’t figure it out. There was a man in the middle aged Italy, who did some new thinking on this area, and recently there was a Brazilian philosopher who wanted to give freedom back to children in school.”
“Yes, I have read about him. But Sebastian, tell me, are we talking politics here?”
“No, not at all. We are talking humanity. Politics always destroys the free will of the people. Humanity does not. Oh God, I have a headache now. This thinking is too heavy a task for my small mind.”
Linda Clay
Thoughts on Timesquare
Mankind is running through the same steps of development, as every single human being. Thus, we are a mirror of the whole mankind and should understand our inner I as this mirror. Every thought and every feeling, which has been thought and felt through mankind is mirrored in every single human being. From wonder we get language, which leads us to questioning about the issues we wonder about. The answers create reasoning and emotions in our mind. These two concepts are gathered in The Common Knowledge and The Common Will. From the point of reasoning/emotions, issues could be interpreted religiously by our surroundings. If we take that path we choose the easiest and most narrow way and will never reach understanding of oneself as a single and unique person. Therefore, we will never reach empathy, which should be the ruler of mankind.
Religion is there, but must always be a private matter, and it should not prevent the development towards empathy, grown out of The Common Knowledge and The Common Will.
If we do not follow the paths of pure humanism civilization will break down, as power takes over empathy.
Per Jespersen
